Monday, February 25, 2013

A Kindle Freebie & a Bargain

Currently free in both UK and US Kindle, is Tony Black's Gus Dury novella, Last Orders:

Official blurb:When he receives a mysterious letter on expensively embossed paper,
reluctant investigator Gus Dury decides to take the case, if for no
other reason than he needs the cash. But there's something about his
well-heeled client, Callum Urquhart, that doesn't sit right with Dury.

Urquhart
has travelled across the country to find his missing teenage daughter
-- who definitely doesn't want to be found. As Dury gets closer to
locating Caroline, what he uncovers is a web of lies and deceit and some
painful realisations that lead back to his own tangled past.

Last Orders is a 14,000 word novella, first published in the Edinburgh Evening News, from the author of the Random House UK Gus Dury series: Paying for It, Gutted, Loss, and Long Time Dead - which is soon to be brought to the big screen by Richard Jobson.

I was tipped off by MrsPeabody that Norwegian by Night by Derek B Miller is currently selling on UK Kindle for £1.59.

Official blurb:

He will not admit it to Rhea and Lars - never, of course not - but Sheldon can't help but wonder what it is he's doing here...

Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has
grudgingly moved to Oslo, with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian
husband. An ex-Marine, he talks often to the ghosts of his past - the
friends he lost in the Pacific and the son who followed him into the US
Army, and to his death in Vietnam.

When Sheldon witnesses
the murder of a woman in his apartment complex, he rescues her
six-year-old son and decides to run. Pursued by both the Balkan gang
responsible for the murder, and the Norwegian police, he has to rely on
training from over half a century before to try and keep the boy safe.
Against a strange and foreign landscape, this unlikely couple, who can't
speak the same language, start to form a bond that may just save them
both.

An extraordinary debut, featuring a memorable hero, Norwegian by Night
is the last adventure of a man still trying to come to terms with the
tragedies of his life. Compelling and sophisticated, it is both a chase
through the woods thriller and an emotionally haunting novel about
ageing and regret.